Re: Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

One of the things that impressed me in Quake (the first one) was the demo recording system. The system was deterministic enough that it could record your inputs/the game state and just play them back to get a gameplay video. Especially given that Quake had state of the art graphics at the time, and video playback on computers otherwise was a low-res, resource intensive affair at the time, it was way cool.

It always surprised me how few games had that feature - though a few important ones, like StarCraft, did - and it only became rarer over the years.

vintermann, 9 hours ago